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Mac Gaming: Tales of Monkey Island Released!

Those of you who are regular readers know that I despise (and, in fact,
frequently make fun of) gaming web sites that
update a thousand times a day by, more or less, just republishing game company
press releases. But today something happened that I think warrants doing
essentially that.

This in itself would be news, but in a move that can only be compared to the
gaming industry’s version of “Don’t Be Evil”, they’ve gone a step further. You
buy a Telltale game, you can play it on Windows or Mac. For that matter, if
you’ve already bought a Telltale game on Windows, you can now download the
Mac version as well. Tell me the last time you heard of a game company doing
that.

On the company’s launch page, you can also vote for which game they will port
to the Mac next. Everyone will have
their own opinions about this. From my perspective, the best ones in their
stable (and, possibly, the best adventure games of their type, ever) are the
Strong Bad series. But even if you disagree with me, drop by and make your
voice heard.

Kudos, Telltale. Thanks for giving those of us on the Mac side of the great
divide something to smile about.

Disclosure: Telltale has provided me with review copies of pretty much all of
their games. But I’ll be buying the Mac version of Tales of Monkey Island
with my own cold, hard cash. $34.95 gets you the entire series. It would be a
bargain at twice that price.